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Madder would sit down with the angels and laugh, in
the meantime she was determined to buy a house in
Astor Heights. "Joe, if you ask me, God helps those
who help themselves. And I know He's going to get me
that Cape Cod with the patio, because He wouldn't
have brought Grandpa all the way over here across the
Atlantic Ocean and then just let the whole thing drop.
And I believe in my heart that my daddy and mother are
right up there, reminding Him, year in, year out, to bring
this family one step further along to getting away from
Madder."
chapter 46
Out on the widow's walk of the tallest house in
Dingley Falls, Ramona leaned with her cane against the
white scroll railing. She could see over the top of Wild
Oat Ridge, but there was nothing to see except haze
settling on the forest. The invalid had been up since five,
fiddling. Fiddling with boxes of possessions she kept
meaning to pack up for the thrift shop, or for Orchid, or
for whoever would take them. Fiddling with
medications for her stomach, which had resented last